 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 | Jenn, you don't have to be chatty.  Please remember breath deep and take one small step at a time. Live each hour at a time. You may be a candidate for radiation therapy which can be very effective with this cancer. State of mind can be really hard to keep rational. For what ever reason our thinking tends to spiral into continually worse projections of the future. You can over time practice getting some control over this kind of thinking. Tears are normal and healthy. You have a lot of options for winning this fight and becoming a better person as a part of the process. Hug those kids (it is a healing thing just to be around them) Lean on us any time.
Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.
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